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Thanks a lot for helping me out Butters!
~Tami
*FYI Flower was drawn by Butterflyx21 as a lupe makeable*
It is a bright, sunny day. You are walking through a forest on a trail new to you. There is a sense of peace in the air, until about 15 minutes into your hike. You sense the atmosphere tense, you keep moving on, slower now, hoping that things will return to normal soon. Suddenly, a low, warning growl comes out of nowhere. Startled, you walk a little further, then the growl depens. You want to run, but can't, for you are frozen in fear. In your fear, you can't even tell where the sound is coming from. The growl subsides after a few seconds. Hoping the creature moved away, you dare to move again. Then you hear a rustle in the bushes to your left. Out steps a red lupe, a female you guess. She is quite beautiful. "Hello, I'm sorry if I scared you. I can't be too careful." she says. "Perhaps I should make it up to you... I'll show you my home, if you promise me that you'll tell no one where it is." Confused, but curious you promise and she leads you off the trail and into the woods. Before long, you come to a large clearing, with a lake in the distance. "Welcome to my home," the lupe says. You are facinated with the beauty of her home. Everything seems tranquil and perfect. You seem to forget all your troubles and worries here. "I'm glad you seem to like it." the lupe says. In your transe you forgot the lupe was there, and are jolted back to your senses. "My name is Flower." she says. "And yours is?" "So, guest, would you like to know how I came to live here?" Eagerly, you say yes.
Well, my life has never been easy, it's tough living on your own." Flower starts off. "I didn't always live alone though. When I was young, I lived in a large pack. My mother wasn't the Alpha female, so my siblings and I never had the full treatment that the Alphas' pups would. I was the youngest of my siblings. It always seemed that I had the lowest priveleges out of the four of us. As I got older, that sort of treatment continued. I learned that I became the Omega of my pack. Omegas' are the ones who always have to pretty much take care of themselves. Every time my pack made a kill, I would have to wait until everyone was finished and then scrounge for what was left. My place actually saved me one day. As my pack was out hunting, we came across a dead animal lying, untouched on the ground. Our Alpha male walked over to it, sniffed it a little, and started to eat. The pack took it as a cue, and trotted over eat as well. As usual, I sat a little distance from frenzy, and waited until I could go. A few minutes after they started eating, our Alpha male stepped back slowly from the kill, and started to have what looked like a sezier. A couple seconds later, and he was dead. Then, it started happening to everyone else, even the pups. It happened to everyone who ate. Horrified at the realization of what just happened, at the fact that the kill was poisened, I ran away, away from my home, my pack, and everything that I had known."
I kept on the move for days and months and years. I had to learn how to detect poisoned kills, traps, and most importantly, the smell of humans. No offence," she adds. "Now you understand why I was so aggressive earlier. One day, I decided to look for a permenant, safe, home. I traveled for what was probably a year until I found this place. In my travels, I met another lupe, Baltheir. We met quite the same way you and I did, though I did not sense him as big a threat as a human, despite him being a pirate, for he and I are akin. We were able to converse on anything for what seemed like hours. He was around 15 human years old at the time. After a while he left to go back to his capitan's ship, and I, to find a home. I didn't really meet anyone else in my travels. One winter day, I came across this place. It being winter, I needed a place to stay that was plentiful of food. I found that it was and noticed no other signs of lupes or humans, so I started to mark it as my teritory. After winter passed, I desided to make it my permenant home. It is beautiful in the spring, as you can see. It is still hard to live on my own, but I've been through worse as you can imagine." Flower looks up at the sky and says, "It appears to be getting late guest, you should head home now." Reluctantly, you agree, as you can start to see stars appear in the sky. "I shall lead you back to the path," Flower says. "It would not be good to become lost in the forest at night." She leads you back to the path and you exchange farwells. "Goodbye guest. Feel free to return if you remember the way, and don't forget your promise." At that, Flower turns back and walks toward her home, leaving you in admiration of her stuggles in her life.
life.
Part of Flower's story is based on the great book Wolf: the journey home by 'Asta Bowen.
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